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The New York Review of Books issued a statement on Monday addressing the sudden departure of its editor last week, saying “we acknowledge our failures in the presentation and editing” of an essay by a man who had been accused of sexual assault. In the essay, “Reflections From a Hashtag,” …

Our relationship is early morning selfies before the 200 bus. Salty-sweet Chinese candy wrappers that line my bag. The off-brand Aveeno hand lotion she gave me for Christmas. I imagined that she spelled her name “Mei” in the Chinese tradition, meaning “plum blossom.” The senior Metro ID that dangles from …

WE HAVE RECENTLY entered the age of comic art canonization. The teaching of college courses on comics, from small seminars to large lecture courses, has naturally accompanied museum exhibits and award ceremonies. It has just as naturally prompted the emergence of journals, textbooks, and monographs specializing in comics studies. Prestigious …

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 DAVID FOSTER WALLACE referred to a novel-in-progress as a “kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around.” A partially existent work of fiction trails you everywhere, utterly defective, a ludicrous “betrayal of all your hopes for it,” he said. Andrew Martin’s first book is about …

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 I RECENTLY CAUGHT the start of a revolution that swept Armenia’s autocrat from power and replaced him with an opposition newspaper founder. It started as a mass demonstration and, had it been crushed, it might have hardly been remembered. More striking was that it was completely nonviolent. …

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 AT THIS POINT, it might seem obvious that the various uprisings of 1968 were a global affair. Recent anniversary issues of Jacobin and The Nation, for example, have emphasized the interconnection of events in the United States, Vietnam, France, and Mexico. Yet even today, many accounts of …

This week Francine Prose reviews a book about the legacy of Louisa Alcott’s “Little Women,” published 150 years ago. Below is an unsigned 1889 review of a collection of Alcott’s letters and journals. An anecdote of Miss Alcott’s childhood, told by the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is that one morning …

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 A color has many faces. — Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (1963) ¤ AT ITS BASE, writing is an act of drawing, of applying short, black intersecting lines to a white page. When illegible to a reader, the graphic page fails to represent a world through words …

Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books, left his position on Wednesday amid an uproar over the magazine’s publication of an essay by a disgraced Canadian radio broadcaster who had been accused of sexually assaulting and battering women. “I can confirm that Ian Buruma is no …